Exploratory bi-factor-S-1 analyses demonstrated that variance across all three forms of aggression were also relatively and incrementally better explained by a general factor that was characterized by alcohol-related aggression. These findings imply that information about individuals’ tendency to be aggressive during alcohol consumption might accurately characterize their tendencies to be aggressive in relation to drug consumption and when sober. Indeed, alcohol-related aggression’s ability to serve as this general factor argues that it is more diagnostic of overall aggression than the other two facets and that alcohol-related violence cannot be viewed as entirely disentangled from violence in these other categories. What remains to be seen is if conceptual models of alcohol-related aggression (e.g., alcohol myopia theory; Steele & Josephs, 1990) can be translated to these other two domains by virtue of alcohol-related aggression’s ability to characterize overall aggressive tendencies. Because these analyses were exploratory, they should receive less inferential confidence than the ones we preregistered.
